Editing El Alamein (section)

==World War II==
[[File:Montgomery watches his tanks move up.jpg|thumb|right|[[Bernard Montgomery]] watches his tanks move up during the Battle of El Alamein.]]
Two important [[World War II]] battles were fought in the area:

*At the [[First Battle of El Alamein]] (1–27 July 1942), the advance of [[Axis powers|Axis]] troops on [[Alexandria]] was blunted by the [[Allies of World War II|Allies]], stopping the Italian and German forces that were trying to outflank the Allies' position.
*At the [[Second Battle of El Alamein]] (23 October – 4 November 1942), Allied forces broke the Axis line and forced them all the way back to [[Tunisia]]. [[Winston Churchill]], the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|British Prime Minister]] at the time, said of this victory: "Now this is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." After the war, he wrote: "Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein, we never had a defeat."